Buffing-wheel gage



(No Model.)

B. BINNS.

BUFFING WHEEL GAGE.

Patented Apr. 20, 1886.

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UNITEn STATES PATENT FFICE.

ROBERT BINNS, OF SOUTH VINDHAM, CONNECTICUT.

BUFFlNG-WHEEL GAGE.

SPECIPL'CATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,086, dated April 20, 1886.

Application filed May 6, 1885. Serial No. 164,553. (No model.)

i" 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT BINNS, of South \Vindham, in the county of NVindham and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new and useful Buffing-Vheel Gage; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of the machine constituting my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 4 shows a plunger for compressing the pack of pieces of cloth and punching or marking the same at the center thereof.

The plane of the section shown in Fig. 3 is on line 1 1 of Fig. 1, it going directlythrough the center of this latter figure.

The said machine or gage is for use in the manufacturing of a buffing-wheel composed of two disks of textile fabric and pieces of cloth arranged and packed bet-ween them and united to them by a helical line or lines of sewinggoing through such disks and pack of pieces of cloth, all being substantially as represented in the United States Patent No. 306,463, granted October 14, 1884, to me. The first parts of the said gage consists of a shallow tray or cylindrical vessel, A, open at top and having a series .of notches, a, extending down within its rim b from the top thereof to the bottom 0 of such vessel, such notches being arranged usually at equal distances apart. \Vithin the said vessel A is an annulus, B, of thin plate metal, having a diameter equal to that of the interior of the vessel A, and also having a flange, 0, extending inwardly from it at its lower edge. Through such flanged annulus where it crosses each of the notches a there is a series of holes, d, arranged obliquely, as represented. Furthermore,within the said annulus B is a flat ring, 0,.whose internal diameter is equal to that of the flange 0. Besides such ring 0, I employ with the parts enumerated another ring, D, of plate metal, having a diameter corresponding to that of the annulus B. The ring D is to rest upon the top of the annulus B, and extend therefrom to the top of the vessel A.

To use the gage, the flanged annulus B is first to be laid within the vessel A so as to rest on the bottom thereof. This having been done, one of the two cloth disks that enterinto the formation of a buffing-wheel is to be placed within the vessel A and to rest on the bottom thereof and project over and cover the flange of the annulus B. Next, there is to be laid or packed on the said disk the pile of pieces of cloth that are to go between the two disks. After having properly arranged such pieces in a pile the other disk is to be laid on the top of the pile and the smaller or flat ring 0 is to be placed in the vessel A and upon the top of such disk. Next, the ring D is to be inserted in the vessel A and on top of the annulus B, after which a cylindrical plunger, (shown at E in Fig. 3,) and having at its center and projecting down therefrom a steel point or marker, 9, is to be forced down within the vessel (it being guided therein by the ring D) and upon the pile within it, so as to compress the said pile. This having been acplished,pins are to be inserted in the holes of the annulus B, so as to confine the ring 0 down upon the pile. The plunger and the ring D are next to be withdrawn from the vessel A, after which the flanged annulus B, the pile, and the ring 0 are to be removed bodily from the said vessel and properly submitted to a sewing-machine for connecting the parts of the pile by stitches arranged in a helix or spiral. The plunger is notched or formed at its periphery so as not to interfere with the pins while they are being inserted in the holes of the annulus B, the notches being shown at n n n.

The object of marking the pack atits center is to enable a punch to be properly adjusted to the pack to punch a hole through it centrally, for the pack afterward to be placed on an arbor or spindle on which it is to revolve while its parts are sewed together helically, as mentioned.

I claim- 1. The buffer-wheel gage, substantially as described, consisting of the shallow cylindrical tray or. vessel A, notched in its rim, as described, the flanged annulus B, and the fiat ring 0, such annulus B having holes arranged in it, and all being for use substantially as set forth. I 2. The'bufler-wheel gage, substantiallylas described, consisting of the shallow cylindri- 5 cal tray or vessel A,notched in its rim, as described, the flanged and perforated annulus B,

and the flat ring 0, in combination with. the

guide-ring D, inserted in the vessel A, and

with the plunger E, and the marker 9,, ,11 b ing' to operate substa tially" in manner and m for the purpose specified; I

RQBERT BINNS.

Witnesses:

JAMES J. ANDREWS, HUBER CLARK. 

